July 16, 2006
Food, glorious food.
"One cannot live well, love well or sleep well unless one has dined well" Virginia Woolf
Friday was Bastille Day, the French national day, where the people of Paris stormed a prison named the Bastille and the revolution began. To commemorate all this blood and anger.. we eat.
3 hours or so of sitting at a dining table, much wine, coq au vin (slowly cooked chicken in a red whine sauce with mushrooms and things), crepes...
We had a french relative staying in Sydney with an australian friend of hers who had never sat at a dining table for so long and was baffled. Luckily she has never sat in on a real french meal of about 8 hours. Her eating habits resembled more the jewish side of my family: sit down, eat, a few words of conversation, be off the table in less than half an hour, unzip your fly and go watch the cricket.
Yum.
Posted by julien at July 16, 2006 02:12 PM
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Funny that. The Jewish side of your family resembles my family... except for the cricket part.
We'd all rather gamble our hard earned savings....
And drink beer.
Lots of it. :S
*hugs* Keep well, chumps
Posted by: b at July 16, 2006 05:39 PM